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Caribbean & Central America - August 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Election temperature rises
On 1 August Pelegrin Castillo, the only deputy from the Fuerza Nacional Progresista (FNP), one of the smallest parties in congress, survived an assassination attempt that cost the life of a former airforce lieutenant who was serving as one of his bodyguards. Castillo is the presidential candidate for the rightwing, FNP in next May’s elections.
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